I don’t know any tricks like that, I said. Shit, said Rudy, and then he gave me the jewels from around his neck I mean this totally sweet mime face that was smiling and frowning which is how I felt every day. What is this? Is this a trick? I asked. Yes, said Rudy. This is a trick, it’s your bling, it will protect you, said Rudy. How will it protect me? I asked, and Rudy said, It will blow your enemy’s mind, is how. And while they are confounded, you can plan your next attack.

Rudy dropped me off at school the next day with the radio going so loud, the song about the umbrella and we were standing under it ella ella and the other kids looked at me in that toxic loud car, I was covered in jewels with the best music pumping and the chain saws in the back and I thought I saw them bow down.